I am joining the millions who were devastated by President Trump's decision to deploy "the Dreamers Act." Former President Obama, by executive order, allowed children who had crossed the Mexican border illegally to remain in America.

Community leaders and supporters turned out Thursday night for the Oak Park Regional Housing Center's annual benefit, themed "Investing in Integration." Held at Chicago's Columbus Park Refectory, the evening included a conversation with Natalie Moore, WBEZ reporter and author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation.

I wrote a letter to the Wednesday Journal a week or so ago [Pigeons don't make people sick, Viewpoints, Aug. 30], protesting the views in a previous WJ letter that said rats and pigeons should suffer the same fate — extermination — because of the threat of human illness from pigeon droppings [Viewpoints, Aug. 23].

On Aug. 30, I learned that an employee of Austin Pantry, a store located at my building on Austin Boulevard and Chicago Avenue, had been arrested for selling heroin at the store. The next day, the village of Oak Park closed the business and announced that it would conduct a hearing about permanently revoking its license.

James Hunt, 72, of Oak Park, died on Sept. 7, 2017 after a three-year battle with cancer. Born in Chicago in January 1945 to Leona Brown Hunt and James Hunt, he attended St. Malachy Elementary School, St. Philip High School, Wilbur Wright Community College, and the School of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Who knew that the venerable and always vital Old Town School of Folk Music had its inception in Oak Park 60 years ago? Not full blown, mind you. We don't want to take anything away from Old Town or the corner of North Avenue and Sedgwick where the very first flag was planted.

Our story last week that Oak Park police had closed down a heroin-selling operation being run by an employee out of the corner store at Chicago and Austin was disheartening. That employee has now been charged with 17 felony counts of heroin sales and possession.